Everytime I turn on my laptop, it keeps on coming up to this blue screen with with words that say...?

Question

It says something about the "boot_volume." And it won't let me restart it when I put in the Windows XP disc, or anyhing else. What can I do to get my laptop to its origanal state?

Answer 1

Go into the bios and change your settings so that your system boots from the cd-rom drive first. Then insert the windows xp cd while your system is on. When you restart it should boot from the disc and just follow the prompts to reinstall your operating system.

Answer 2

An "Unmountable Boot Volume" means you are having an issue with the hard drive.

It could be any number of things really. Could be the hard drive is going bad, bad IDE controller on your motherboard, Bad sectors on the master boot record, or memory corruption.

If it is not letting you reinstall windows with the XP disc, then you most likely do not have the boot sequence set to boot from CD first. Either that, or you are not hitting a button when it says "hit any button to boot from cd".

To change the boot sequence, you would need to go into your bios. They are all different, but it is pretty straight forward as how to change it. Just set it so that CD-rom is set to boot before IDE/HDD.

If it goes into the first part of the XP install, but does not allow you to continue. It is most likely a failed hard drive.

If it does let you go into the XP install, you can try running CHKDSK in the recovery console. You can get there by hitting the "r" button when it asks you if you want to repair. Then log into installation number 1 and the password will be the administrators password. Usually that password is just blank.

If chkdsk does not work, you could try "fixboot" or "fixmbr".

If that is too much, your best bet would be to take it in for someone to look at.

Answer 3

Are you ready to hear the truth? For somehow, your computer has been damaged, so the best way to get rid of this, is doing a fresh reinstall your Windows again. Put in your XP CD, restart your computer, if your computer says "Press any key to load from CD.......", then press any key. Computer will starting to copy files off CD and will ask your permission to delete / format your computer. I would recommend to do so. If it said it has found a Windows installed and offer you to fix it, I would hit ESC to not accept, but rather than reinstall Windows again to prevent from any error could happen. Then use any NTFS format to format your computer, Quick would do much faster (about 2 mins), the non-Quick would take more than 5 mins (or more) depends on how large your HD is. All of this will take 45 - 60 mins to complete. Goodluck. Note: all your files will be destroyed. If they are very important, and you want to save, but you can't able to use computer, then when it offers to install the Windows, use the same directory of your current Windows, and install the Windows on top of this, (this won't cause the format screen to show), this will take about 45 mins or more to complete. Once it's done, log in your computer, save those file somewhere else, then reinstall your computer again with formatting, to prevent any thing could happen. I know...i know....it's a heck of a job. But if you are happy with what you just did, then stick with it, if not, reinstall again with format your HD.

Answer 4

Try getting into your bios, (hit the key it prompts when you first turn on the puter, f8, f10, or whatever) and change the boot order sequence to put the cd drive first. Then it should try to boot off the cd instead of looking for the hd.

Answer 5

that sound like a hard disk failure if
1 you can't boot of the hdd
2 you get an error about the boot volume when you insert the windows cd
I'd get someone to look at it if I were you

Answer 6

Your hard drive starts to have problem, the OS is trying to fix it. Replace a new one soon before it is too late.